Astrea annuligera
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AstreaPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.
16 occurrences of Astrea annuligera on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
16 occurrences- Pliocene6%
- Pleistocene81%
- Holocene13%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
- Chaya Formation3
- Naha Formation · Ryukyu Group1
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The named rock units Astrea annuligera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Astrea annuligera and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Astrea annuligera and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Acropora cytherea2 sites
- Acropora robusta2 sites
- Dermatolithon2 sites
- Favites abdita2 sites
- Hydrolithon onkodes2 sites
- Mesophyllum2 sites
- Neogoniolithon2 sites
- Porites2 sites
- Acervulina1 site
- Acropora abrotanoides1 site
- Acropora clathrata1 site
- Acropora humilis1 site
- Acropora hyacinthus1 site
- Amphiroa1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Carpenteria1 site
- Cyphastrea wanneri1 site
- Dendropoma1 site
- Dipsastraea favus1 site
- Dipsastraea laxa1 site
- Dipsastraea pallida1 site
- Echinopora forskaliana1 site
- Favia ehrenbergi1 site
- Favites pentagona1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Astrea annuligera, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
7 references- Limited membership in Pleistocene reef coral assemblages from the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea: constancy during global change7
- Taxonomic Study of Faviidae Family- Quaternary Corals of Okha-Mandal Taluka, Saurashtra Coast, Gujarat2
- Variations in Pleistocene coral assemblages in space and time in southern and northern central Ryukyu Islands, Japan2
- Postglacial growth history of a French Polynesian barrier reef tract, Tahiti, central Pacific2
- Early Pliocene - Holocene Favia from the northern and northwestern coastal areas of Saurashtra Peninsula, western India1
- Ricerche eseguite negli anni 1941-1942 sopra i Coralli delle scogliere emerse di Massaua e Gibuti [Research done between 1941 and 1942 on emersed coral reefs of Massawa and Djibouti]1
- Jungtertiäre und quartäre Anthozoen von Timor und Obi, 1. Teil [Upper Tertiary and Quarternary Anthozoa from Timor and Obi, part 1]1
Each of the 16 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Astrea annuligera
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Astrea annuligera was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849)